X - "Blue Spark" (1982) - MDA Telethon

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    Check out X as they perform "Blue Spark" during the 1982 MDA Labor Day Telethon! This is a rockin' performance guaranteed to lift your spirits!
    The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an enchanting yearly variety show that ran for half a century. Hosted for many years by Jerry Lewis, the telethon featured top stars from the world of music, comedy, and Broadway and was like no other show on earth.
    The telethon was created to help support the Muscular Dystrophy Association, which is leading the fight against muscular dystrophy. MDA dedicates itself to strength, independence and life. To learn more about MDA and to donate, please visit www.MDA.org.
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Komentáře • 45

  • @michaelbruns449
    @michaelbruns449 Před 2 lety +48

    Jerry Lewis introducing X, like that in itself is friggin mind blowing, like another dimension.

    • @mosesberkowitz3298
      @mosesberkowitz3298 Před 8 měsíci +1

      Not Jerry Lewis, my friend. That was Casey Kasem, the guy that did the “American Top 40” radio show for 20+ years. But you’re right about it being surprising- I would think he’d never heard of X.

    • @michaelbruns449
      @michaelbruns449 Před 8 měsíci +2

      ​​@@mosesberkowitz3298
      Jerry's standing next to Casey so he is there during the introduction and he does actually verbally introduce them.

  • @shyman99
    @shyman99 Před 3 lety +30

    "One of the most important bands today". Nice

  • @mucketymuck6723
    @mucketymuck6723 Před 6 měsíci +6

    As a 12-year-old at the time, watching the telethon late in the early morning hours, this mesmerized me and made me immediately follow the band.

  • @sandraolivas4085
    @sandraolivas4085 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I was about 14 years old the first time i saw X in concert I'm 56 now , still see them live when i can still my favorite X❤

  • @stacyblue1980
    @stacyblue1980 Před 2 lety +13

    I have been waiting for years to get a glimpse of this. I have seen backstage photos of the band at this event but never actual footage. I am very touched and I am very thankful that you all put this up on YT for the world. X cares. X makes a difference. And so can others, if we try. Im crying. I am so happy to see this. God bless.

    • @indiglo1971
      @indiglo1971 Před 2 lety

      I just found this. Like you I have been looking for.

  • @phillipphinney206
    @phillipphinney206 Před měsícem

    Incongruous is an understatement. This was back in tbe day when the MDA Telethon was still televised over the 3 day Labor Day weekend. Can only wonder when X went on; looks like in the wee hours from the shots of early morning(?) Vegas.

  • @4tuneagent
    @4tuneagent Před 3 měsíci +1

    Watching the Tony Hawk documentary, and then,"Hey, I know this tune!".

  • @TheSlowoldman
    @TheSlowoldman Před rokem +2

    My folks watched the MDA telethon every year..... I remember this vividly, I couldn't wait until X came on. I remember my folks looking at me afterward, they were country folk and they just didn't get it at all. 😄

  • @gogoyubari366
    @gogoyubari366 Před 4 měsíci +2

    One of my favorite X songs!

  • @johnIZaUWL
    @johnIZaUWL Před 3 lety +11

    I’m IMPRESSED Jerry let them do the Telethon lol

    • @jamesgretsch4894
      @jamesgretsch4894 Před 3 lety +7

      He was a big X fan.

    • @christophervaldez8746
      @christophervaldez8746 Před 2 lety +7

      @@jamesgretsch4894 He liked X more than he liked Gary Lewis & the Playboys!😅

    • @stacyblue1980
      @stacyblue1980 Před 2 lety +3

      @@jamesgretsch4894 was he really? Ive always wondered how he felt about this.

  • @user-wn5ov4xw4o
    @user-wn5ov4xw4o Před 3 měsíci +1

    my first punk album ,still love playing it

    • @c.7610
      @c.7610 Před 3 měsíci

      Me too, on both counts.

  • @Clodrock
    @Clodrock Před 2 měsíci

    Been watching them live since the 80s. Just saw them this past Saturday in Highland, CA. THEY STILL ROCK!!!

  • @ChevyRae
    @ChevyRae Před 2 lety +8

    This is seriously too damn good

    • @stacyblue1980
      @stacyblue1980 Před 2 lety +1

      X are the greatest. This is beautiful. And I like how the album cut is playing but theyre actually singing. And Exene is just the best ever.

  • @grahamcarver4527
    @grahamcarver4527 Před rokem +2

    What a fantastic underrated Band ..love this Punk Harmony!!Thanks !

  • @danielmedina1136
    @danielmedina1136 Před rokem +2

    Me and Heather Oleson long beach 1985 . . . Best goddamn years of my life.

  • @steveoh9285
    @steveoh9285 Před rokem +3

    What a great song from a great band!

  • @drclueful
    @drclueful Před 2 lety +3

    love billy zoom's guitar zooms

  • @judasplow25
    @judasplow25 Před 3 měsíci

    This is the song that turned me on to X. Couldn't wait to get home and do a proper youtube investigation.

  • @mikenealon4042
    @mikenealon4042 Před 3 lety +5

    vivaX

  • @2005CessnaPilot
    @2005CessnaPilot Před 8 měsíci +1

    I'm calling in with $25! Awesome.

  • @keplertagapan2912
    @keplertagapan2912 Před rokem +1

    X English British 🇬🇧 English American 🇺🇸 Synth Punk Pop Waves New Waves Pop Rocks Punk Waves United States Band Decades 80s 90s Disband Legendary

  • @OroborusFMA
    @OroborusFMA Před 8 měsíci +1

    They always seemed to be on the brink of a mainstream breakthrough but it never quite happened.

  • @gasutrias9961
    @gasutrias9961 Před rokem +1

    😍

  • @peterdaigle4772
    @peterdaigle4772 Před 11 měsíci

    I was 20 when i bought this on cassette. FACK

  • @kevincarlson668
    @kevincarlson668 Před měsícem

    As surreal as the (then notorious)Patti Smith being on that 70's kid's show.

  • @keplertagapan2912
    @keplertagapan2912 Před měsícem

    Top 5 Five Single Hitsongs Billboard Chart John Doe Lead Vocalist Songwriter Guitarist X English American 🇺🇸 Band New Waves Eighties 80s Nineties 90s Legendary United States Waves

  • @CKerns-st0ke64
    @CKerns-st0ke64 Před 3 lety +7

    Terribly disrespectful directing. But the mainstream exposure was amazing for the times. "X" always superb!

    • @geojorge1369
      @geojorge1369 Před 10 měsíci

      The stage lighting was terrible!

  • @Pedroisanickname
    @Pedroisanickname Před 19 dny

    The Smiling guitarist

  • @mauriceortiz8817
    @mauriceortiz8817 Před rokem +1

    They were so good they should have been called triple X or for the slower kids X and X and X

  • @user-mc6tr1vp2v
    @user-mc6tr1vp2v Před 8 měsíci

    How cool. I never knew they did this. Does anyone know what year?

    • @4tuneagent
      @4tuneagent Před 3 měsíci

      1981 or '82. Under the Big Black Sun album..

  • @perryiampietro5785
    @perryiampietro5785 Před 7 měsíci

    Bizarroworld!

  • @halenbud
    @halenbud Před 2 měsíci

    He waits in a beach apartment
    Blue spark thousands
    Of lights thousands
    Of people she's forgotten
    Him for the bodies around her blue shock,
    Exchange blue shock,
    Exchange blue spark what goes
    Between the eyes downtown
    Blue spark loudspeakers
    And search lights the boulevard
    She comes home later just
    To give him blue spark